He’s piling on. Uncalled for.
He’s part of the solution. Not the problem.
Are you kidding?! McCarthy deserves to be piled on. He is and always was a self-serving snake.
Opinion: As House speaker, Mike Johnson is as dangerous as Jim Jordan
By Ruth Marcus
Wash/Post Associate editor
|October 25, 2023
pic-—Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) gives a thumbs-up after he was elected House speaker on Oct. 25. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
If you are feeling any sense of relief that Jim Jordan won’t be the next House speaker, stop and worry again. The new speaker, Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.), might be more dangerous than the firebrand Ohio Republican. For Jordan’s shirt sleeves demeanor and wrestler’s pugnacity, substitute a bespectacled, low-key presentation, a law degree and an unswerving commitment to conservative dogma and former president Donald Trump.
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This is not an upgrade. It is Jordan in a more palatable package — evidently smoother, seemingly smarter and, therefore, potentially more effective.
Johnson, now serving his fourth term in Congress, was the moving force behind a Supreme Court brief that helped lay the shoddy intellectual groundwork for Jan. 6, 2021. In December 2020, he rallied fellow Republican lawmakers to support Texas’s brazen bid to overturn the election results.
In a lawsuit that fizzled almost as soon as it was filed, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sought to have the Supreme Court intervene in the election by blocking the certification of electoral college votes in four swing states — Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin — where voting rules had been changed in the course of the election and voters, not coincidentally, had favored Joe Biden.
The justices swiftly rejected the case, tartly noting that, “Texas has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another State conducts its elections.”
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Anything that hurts liberals is good. Conservatives have been treated like dirt for thirty years by these leftist and time and again had offers of friendship and working together thrown back in their faces by these elitist pricks. To hell with them, they need to be exposed for being the bottom dwellers of politics.
Exposing the rat bastard McCarthy offends you?